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Apparently, though unproven, at 21:26 on Friday 29 October 2010, Fatih Tümen |
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> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 21:18, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:46 on Friday 29 October 2010, Fatih |
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> > Tümen |
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> > |
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> > did opine thusly: |
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> >> Hi, |
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> >> |
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> >> Is there a way tell portage to build binary package before removing it |
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> >> from the system? |
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> >> |
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> >> man emerge says: |
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> >> --buildpkg (-b) |
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> >> Tells emerge to build binary packages for all ebuilds |
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> >> processed in addition to actually **merging** the packages. |
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> >> [...] |
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> >> An alternative for already-merged packages is to use |
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> >> quickpkg(1) which creates a tbz2 from the live filesystem. |
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> >> |
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> >> I have about 20 packages to unmerge or remerge with new use flags. But |
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> >> I want to keep binary copies (with old use settings) before unmerging |
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> >> them. Unfortunately I did not have buildpkg in FEATURES at the time of |
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> >> emerging them. Doing this now by hand sounds kinda fatigue unless... |
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> >> the output of --pretend was parsable so I do what I want by.. |
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> >> |
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> >> for pkg in ${PKGS}; do quickpkg --include-config\=y $pkg; done |
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> >> |
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> >> or by something better? |
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> >> |
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> >> Thanks for ideas in advance. |
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> >> -- |
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> >> Fatih |
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> > |
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> > Write a wrapper script around quickpkg and emerge. |
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> > |
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> > And set buildpkg in FEATURES so this doesn't happen again :-) |
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> 'wrapper' rang the bell. Thanks. |
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> The only one I recalled was post_src_install from lafilefixer thing. |
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> So I grepped /usr/lib/portage/ for it and found the list of others at |
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> /usr/lib/portage/bin/isolated-functions.sh +521 and wrote this inside |
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> /etc/portage/bashrc |
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> pkg_prerm() { |
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> echo ">>> Building binary package before unmerging ;)" |
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> if [[ -f /var/db/.pkg.portage_lockfile ]]; then |
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> rm -f /var/db/.pkg.portage_lockfile #2>/dev/null |
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> fi |
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> quickpkg --include-config\=y "=$CATEGORY/$P" |
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> touch /var/db/.pkg.portage_lockfile |
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> } |
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It didn't occur to me to do it that way :-) |
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But it's actually a fine idea, and the way you are supposed to do it by |
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design. Maybe next time I'll remember what those hooks are for :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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